Throwable 36-Camera Ball Takes Spherical Panoramas 140
MrSeb writes "Jonas Pfeil, a student from the Technical University of Berlin, has created a rugged, grapefruit-sized ball that has 36 fixed-focus, 2-megapixel digital camera sensors built in. The user simply throws the ball into the air and photos are simultaneously taken with all 36 cameras to create a full, spherical panorama of the surrounding scene. The ball itself is made with a 3D printer, and the innards (which includes 36 STM VS6724 CMOS camera sensors, an accelerometer, and two microcontrollers to control the cameras) are adequately padded, so presumably it doesn't matter if you're bad at throwing and catching."
Hmmm... (Score:5, Funny)
Hmmm so now I can take photos WITH my balls.
Re:Viewing is going to be kind of lame (Score:3, Funny)
Yea, all you'd have to do is throw it into a bunker, then go into said bunker to retrieve the ball, come back out of the bunker, plug the ball into a computer and look at the pictures. Then you'll know exactly what was in that bunker you were just in. Revolutionary I tell ya.
Re:Viewing is going to be kind of lame (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Viewing is going to be kind of lame (Score:4, Funny)
Think of the military value though. Toss a ball into a bunker, bounce it around the corner, throw it straight up to see what's on the other side of a wall, etc...
Think of the high school teenager value. Toss it into the locker room, bounce it around into the shower, instant 36 counts of manufacturing child porn.
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Re:Viewing is going to be kind of lame (Score:3, Funny)
Bad idea, it would make retrieving it dangerous.
Re:Viewing is going to be kind of lame (Score:3, Funny)
Put a countdown led on it and the bad guys might feel like throwing it back out